Bachelor in Licence - Sciences du langage

Offered at Université Grenoble Alpes in Gières, France, the Licence - Sciences du langage (Language Sciences) is a three-year bachelor's degree taught in French, beginning in September with annual tuition of 178 EUR. Language sciences is a discipline that studies human language from multiple scientific perspectives. Phonetics and phonology examine the sound systems of languages and how speech is produced and perceived. Morphology and syntax analyse how words and sentences are structured at different levels of grammatical organisation. Semantics and pragmatics investigate meaning and the way language functions in communicative contexts. Sociolinguistics looks at how language varies across social groups, communities and geographic regions, while psycholinguistics explores how language is acquired, processed and represented in the mind. Historical and comparative linguistics trace the evolution of languages over time and the relationships between language families. Students typically work with data from several languages and develop skills in formal linguistic analysis and fieldwork methodology. This training opens paths in speech and language therapy preparation, teaching, lexicography, natural language processing, publishing, applied linguistics and language assessment. The degree also provides a rigorous foundation for those who wish to pursue academic research at master's and doctoral level in linguistics, phonetics or language acquisition. Students also gain experience presenting linguistic analyses and writing academic papers in the field.